In late April, a Ciech source disclosed that the company stood ready to sell or liquidate its Romanian and German soda ash operations – which have a combined production capacity of 1.1m tonnes/year – if restructuring efforts do not sufficiently improve profitability.

Ciech’s soda ash capacity in Poland is 1.2m tonnes/year. The company is mulling an expansion of this capacity to 1.4m tonnes/year.